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Life as we knew it changed last week. We moved out of my boyfriend’s dad’s house and into our own, and I made my grand return to Sacramento. Our lives were so full of moving boxes, paint and tools over the last two weeks that we haven’t had any time to focus on anything else. We ran more errands than ever thought possible and my daughter had to adjust to not seeing her grandpa every day.

Now that the house is unpacked and 90% organized, things have started to unwind and we are finding our new routine. Since I totally abandoned my blog last week, I’m making it a goal to post 3-5 times a week to stay current. Today, I’m sharing some inspiration for the week. It’s back to the grind, and I need to focus on homework, article writing and getting back into a healthy regimen. No more fast food and pizza! Ok, maybe pizza.

Photo from Jessica Silman (One Simple Thing)

Since I absolutely love granola bars, and I want to try making something new from scratch this week, this Homemade Chewy Granola Bar recipe from One Simple Thing is perfect. She uses coconut, pumpkin and sunflower seeds on hers but you can really use whatever combination of fruit and nuts you come up with. I’m excited to give this a try!

Image from Alexandra Snowdon

This quote from Alexandra Snowdon was just what I needed for the week. I feel like I have been drowning in school, barely coming up for air. This overload with school has also caused me to neglect important aspects of my life, like starting my own business and so on. With only a few weeks left of school, I’m going to make it my mission to fully immerse out of the deep water I’ve been treading and really focus on school.

Once I hit Summer break, I can give myself some time to focus on my business some more and really think about what I want to do. My optimistic side is telling me that I should be primed and ready to dive back into school when the semester starts again in July. Once can only hope!

Something happened last week that hasn’t happened in a long time. I sat down and methodically planned out my goals and I achieved each and every one of them. Come to think of it, I don’t think that has ever happened! And I know what was different. I kept it simple. I made simple and meaningful goals that I really hoped to conquer, and then I just did it. I gave myself time for my blogging, my crafting, my baking, and most of all…the house, my daughter and myself.

Last week’s wishes:

Set up Heather as a partner on my blog (Ok, this one I’m still working on)

I was able to finish the cork board that I have seriously been kind of working on since Summer. It didn’t turn out perfect, but I still love it. And now that I have the hang of it, I see a lot more cork/chalkboards in my future! Even though it took a super long time, I loved working on it here and there and having a big project looming over me. Made it all the more wonderful when it was done.

All done!

I gave myself a couple hours to write out my blog daily when my daughter was napping. I’ve gotten in the habit of writing the next day’s post the night before, but since she has been staying up later, that has been difficult. I figure that if I give myself one or two hours of doing things I love, I’m much a more pleasant person to be around. So it’s for the good of my family that I do this.

And I started AND finished my coffee can planter today! I didn’t even know it was possible to start and finish something in one day anymore. Luckily, my daughter happens to have a loving and amazing grandpa who will spend any moment he can with her, so he entertained her while I got stuff done today. I’m really going to miss him when we move!

While I didn’t make all of the ingredients from scratch (ain’t nobody got time for that), I did make three – count that, THREE – recipes from scratch this week. I know! Crazy, right? I made some delicious cookies and coffee cake for the house and then some cookies for my friend’s birthday. I was kind of amazed by the Betty Crocker I was channeling this week.

And I finally practiced some yoga! It had been so long and I needed a good yoga session. I did some restorative yoga with Erin Motz and DoYouYoga.com right before bed, and my back popped the moment I got down to stretch. That’s when I was reminded of how much I needed it.

And finally, I got to listing Kandyce’s items on our Sweet Mariposa Etsy shop! I haven’t had much of a chance to promote our shop, but I’m hoping to do more of that in the future. We have 14 items right now, and we’re hoping to reach 20 soon! Now that I force myself to save a couple hours for myself, I should get a lot more done!

What I wish for this week:

Set up Heather as a partner on my blog – Still need to work on this.

Work on map tote – I joined a creative penpal collective but I suck at it. Really bad. So I still need to work on my gift that is long past due. I know, no more signing up for stuff for awhile.

Write article for Childhood Magazine – Now that the coffee can planter is done, I need to write the article and attach the photos. I’m so excited!

Make one dinner and one treat from scratch – As much from scratch as I can. We all have our limits.

Practice yoga twice – I need to keep it going and do one practice at night and one in the morning. I miss getting up and doing yoga every morning and I would love to get back in that routine.

Figure out a venue and date for the Vox fundraiser – I am planning a fundraiser for my favorite nonprofit, Vox. We are going to start restoring furniture with kiddos! We are in the works of planning a fundraiser/kickoff party so I need to work on the venue and date this week so I can start getting everything together. Hooray!